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Hey there, folks. It is Thursday, November 13th, and it's just a little while ago, actually.

A man was sitting in a room next to a death chamber waiting to be taken in and executed.

He had been served his last meal, and he was minutes away from going into that death chamber

when he got word that his life was being spared by the governor of Oklahoma.

And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs, we can't believe almost that this happened.

These are so rare, and this is a case for whatever reason we got very close to and interested

in.

Lo and behold, today a man's life was spared.

And within minutes, it was as dramatic as it gets.

And yes, we spoke with Tremaine Woods family just two days ago.

They could barely speak about his potential impending death without sobbing, understandably.

We were on the edge of our seats waiting to see if the governor of Oklahoma was going to go ahead and grant the clemency that a pardon and parole board had recommended the week before.

And tick, talk, tick, talk.

We were all the way up to 10, at the East Coast time, 1057, 1058.

He was scheduled to die by lethal injection at 11 a.m. Eastern time, 10 a.m. local time.

And just before it hit 11 here, we got word.

And we talked about this, where I was saying to you,

I mean, these are so rare that it does happen that the governor grants clemency. And I said, you know, the ones we've heard about oftentimes, it's not like we've seen in the movies. Like they're somebody strapped to the chair and the phone rings on the wall. That's not usually how it goes down, but it can't. It went down like that to a great degree today. Now, Tremaine Wood was sitting waiting to be

executed. They had moved him to this holding cell essentially right next door to the death

chamber. And that's where he had been. It was one of your first questions, robed, when it had gotten

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